EXPLORATIONS IN ARCHITECTURE TEACHING DESIGN RESEARCH

A METHODOLOGY B NETWORKS

C DIDACTICS D TECHNOLOGY

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ESSAYS

STOP MAKING SENSE Angelus Eisinger 14 A DISCOURSE ON METHOD Sanford Kwinter 34

AN ANT'S VIEW OF ARCHITECTURE Bruno Latour, Albena Yaneva 80 UNDERSTANDING BY DESIGN Daniel Bisig, Rolf Pfeifer 124

ARCHITECTURE AS MEMBRANE Georges Teyssot 166

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HISTORICAL CASE STUDIES

REM KOOLHAAS Deane Simpson 12 INSTITUTE FOR ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN STUDIES Kim Förster 26

VENTURI, SCOTT BROWN, AND IZENOUR Martino Stierli 48 LUCIUS BURCKHARDT Martin Josephy 78 CONSTANTINOS DOXIADIS Jeannie Kim 90

TEAM 10 Tom Avermaete 114 CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER Andri Gerber 122 ALDO ROSSI Filip Geerts 134 HOCHSCHULE FÜR GESTALTUNG ULM Tilo Richter 158

BUCKMINSTER FULLER Mark Wasiuta 176 EAMES OFFICE John Harwood 200 HENRY VAN DE VELDE OIe W. Fischer 208

STUDIO CASE STUDIES

LAPA Laboratoire de la production d'architecture [EPFL] 54 MAS UD Master of Advanced Studies in Urban Design [ETHZ] 98

ALiCE Atelier de la conception de I'espace [EPFL] 141 DFAB Gramazio &Kohler, Architecture and Digital Fabrication [ETHZ] 182

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BIRKHÄUSER

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

4 COLOPHON 6 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 8 INTRODUCTION Reto Geiser 12 PERFORMATIVE MODERNITIES: REM KOOLHAAS'S

DELIRIOUS NEW YORK AS INDUCTIVE RESEARCH Deane Simpson

14 STOP MAKING SENSE Angelus Eisinger 26 ALTERNATIVE EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS IN

ARCHITECTURE: THE INSTITUTE FOR ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN STUDIES Kim Förster

29 Research Environments *

A METHODOLOGY ------~"---,----

34 A DISCOURSE ON METHOD (FOR THE PROPER CONDUCT OF REASON AND THE SEARCH FOR EFFICACITY IN DESIGN) Sanford Kwinter

48 THE INVENTION OF THE URBAN RESEARCH STUDIO: ROBERT VENTURI, DENISE SCOTT BROWN AND STEVEN IZENOUR'S LEARNING FROM LAS VEGAS, 1972 Martino Stierli

50 FROM CITY TO DETAIL: THE SPHERE OF THE ARCHITECT Harry Gugger, Carotin Stapenhorst

54 LAPA Laboratoire de la production d'architecture [~PFL]

73 Research Environments *

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78 CRITICAL PRACTICE BETWEEN SCIENCE AND ART: LUCIUS BURCKHARDT AND THE EMERGENCE OF PLANNING THEORY Martin Josephy

80 "GIVE ME A GUN AND I WILL MAKE ALL BUILDINGS MOVE": AN ANT'S VIEW OF ARCHITECTURE Bruno Latour, Albena Yaneva

90 THE ORACLE OF ATHENS: CONSTANTINOS DOXIADIS AND THE STUDY OF HUMAN SETTLEMENTS Jeannie Kim

92 URBAN TRANSFORMATION IN DEVELOPING TERRITORIES Mare Angelil

94 ADDIS THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS Mare Angelil, Cary Siress

98 MAS UD Master of Advanced Studies in Urban Design [ETHZ]

114 A WEB OF RESEARCH ON SOCIO-PLASTICS: TEAM 10 AND THE CRITICAL FRAMING OF EVERYDAY URBAN ENVIRONMENTS Tom Avermaete

117 Research Environments *

C DIDACTICS

122 NOTES ON THE ANALYSIS OF FORM: CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER AND THE LANGUAGE OF PATTERNS Andri Gerber

124 UNDERSTANDING BY DESIGN: THE SYNTHETIC APPROACH TO INTELLIGENCE Daniel Bisig, Rolf Pfeifer

134 THE CITY AS ARCHITECTURE: ALDO ROSSI'S DIDACTIC LEGACY Filip Geerts

136 EXPLORING UNCOMMON TERRITORIES: A SYNTHETIC APPROACH TO TEACHING ARCHITECTURE Dieter Dietz

141 ALiCE Atelier de la conception de I'espace [EPFL] 158 STRUCTURE AND CONTENT FOR THE HUMAN

ENVIRONMENT: HOCHSCHULE FÜR GESTALTUNG ULM,1953-1968 Tilo Richter

161 Research Environments *

D TECHNOLOGY

166 ARCHITECTURE AS MEMBRANE Georges Teyssot 176 WORLD GAME NEW YORK 1969: BUCKMINSTER

FULLER'S GLOBAL SWITCHBOARD Mark Wasiuta 178 DIGITAL MATERIALITY IN ARCHITECTURE:

BRIDGING THE REALMS OF THE VIRTUAL AND THE PHYSICAL Fabio Gramazio, Matthias Kohler

182 DFAB Gramazio & Kohler, Architeeture and Digital Fabrication [ETHZ]

200 RAND D: THE EAMES OFFICE AT WORK John Harwood

202 CREDITS 204 INDEX OF CONTRIBUTORS 206 IMAGE CREDITS 207 PATRONS AND SPONSORS 208 EXPERIMENTAL WORKSHOP OF MODERNITY:

REFORMIST DESIGN EDUCATION FROM VAN DE VELDE TO BAUHAUS OIe W. Fischer

210 STRUCTURAL OSCILLATIONS, INSTALLATION FOR THE 11TH VENICE ARCHITECTURAL BIENNALE, SWISS PAViLlON 2008

• Research Environments at the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology in Lausanne and Zurich, photos by Maris Mezulis